Archive for the ‘Julie Westbury’ Category

New in this week is this stunning print by Jen Franklin. Produced as a variable edition Giclee in an edition of 20. You can buy this print at Elphick’s online store by clicking here. Alternatively you will find it in the print browser at 160 Columbia Road, London E2.

I am busy putting together images for my online store which should be up and running real soon. This is one of my favourite images by Julie Westbury, titled ‘On the Head No.4’. It is an original collage with cuttings from vintage National Geographic Magazines. We have lots more here at Elphick’s at £118 each.

I met Julie in 1986 when she taught me textiles at West Sussex College of Art and Design and we have stayed in contact ever since.

On a visit to Julie’s home in Ramsgate with my daughter, she showed me these amazing collages which I now sell at Elphick’s.

In the first image, which is one of a series of collages called ‘The 3 Pearl Necklaces’ Julie’s photograph ‘Ramsgate Sands’ is recreated as a postcard and repeated and manipulated in such a way that ordinary objects in the picture like the post box and the concrete bollards, magically become red ribbons and a string of pearls.

In the second image ‘Ramsgate Red Ribbon’ a slightly different placement of the same photograph gives a totally different effect.

They remind me of the fractal images you see when looking down a kaleidoscope.